Chapter 32: The Dark Regions
The intensity of the war in the southern countries is constantly rising.
However, due to his status as a guardian of space, Stephen could not get close to the range of the war, because it must be under the watchful eye of the Lord of Death and the Lord of Light at all times, and he would be exposed if he ran into it as an avatar of the Guardian of Space. Moving within the confines of Amber City was already Stephen's limit, and he couldn't intervene in the wars between other gods. This time Stephen saw the cultists of the Night Lady, they attacked the priest of the Church of Death, and Stephen watched the whole process almost from the sidelines, but he did not help either side, because the mission of the Space-Time Hub is that the referee is neutral.
The number of displaced people is growing, many are forced to flee their homes because of the battlefield, and some churches of the gods are trying to accommodate them, but the fighting continues to escalate.
Hundreds of thousands of troops had been amassed along the coast, while in the interior Stephen saw the Order of the Paladins appear.
The Radiant Lords have the largest paladin order in the entire world, and they are strong-willed and powerful without fear of death, and only they can stand up to the Cultists of the Grim Reaper who are also fearless of death and regard death as a glory. This struggle determines the fate of the main physical plane for thousands of years, and the followers of the Lord of Light believe that change is about to bring destruction and disaster, while the believers of the Lord of Death believe that change is necessary to promote the progress of civilization. Stephen couldn't tell which side was right, as if he didn't dare to climb the tech tree of the Motella world casually.
He just left a lot of basic knowledge, and let those aboriginal wizards choose to study on their own, and it is better to climb up the technology tree little by little.
After killing dozens of demon lords in a row, the bottomless abyss was finally much quieter.
The main material plane has infiltrated many demons, and they are secretly wreaking havoc, but almost none of the demon lords have escaped, and now the upper echelons of the bottomless abyss know that there is a very terrible gatekeeper outside, and even the spider god queen - Rose has suffered at his hands.
Little by little, time passed.
In the blink of an eye, it was more than half a month, and during this time, the two sides of the southern battlefield fought back and forth, and even the Fury God Department and the War God Department directly joined the battle. Although the incarnation of the Spider God Queen did not escape, her followers took the opportunity to sneak attack a wave of surface elves, directly stirring up the situation near the Spider Forest into a muddy water.
Stephen's current location is in the Spider Forest.
Because the Space-Time Nexus and the Pantheon's contract restricted him from interfering with anything, he was ready to enter the underworld to see the realm of the Drow Elves after touring around.
The Abyss is very calm now.
Stephen harvested close to one or two hundred points of divinity from those demon lords in one go, so much divine power is enough to create a god close to medium divine power, of course, the premise is that there are still vacancies in this crystal wall system that can be mastered. With so much divine power, Stephen estimated that it would take him several years to digest it, and the more divine power he had in his body now accumulated, if he added the divine power obtained from the Death Omen Star, it was almost comparable to a powerful god.
There are really many demon lords in the bottomless abyss!
And many of them are closed-minded, because from time to time Stephen can catch one or two cats and puppies from the bottom of the abyss who want to run out, and kill one is about two or three points of divinity, but one will pop up from time to time, and the accumulated amount is also quite considerable.
As for why the Divine Essence was dropped, Stephen suspected that he might have inadvertently triggered a special law similar to the Abyss Blood War, because the Demon Lord who died in the Abyss Blood War would lose his own power. There have been some gods who died in the abyssal bloody battles, and then never came back to life, or lost a lot of strength.
Of course, it may also have something to do with Stephen's mastery of part of the laws of death.
The Bottomless Abyss is also in chaos now, mainly because the Demon Lords who were killed by Stephen once have been greatly weakened, and they have become targets for other Demon Lords, and even their enslaved subordinates think that this is a perfect opportunity to rebel. During this time, many demon lords have been replaced, and the spider god queen - Rose seems to have used Stephen to invade the 13th layer of the bottomless abyss, and some of the tarantula demons have surrendered to her feet.
This woman is really looking for opportunities.
Stephen must admit that Rose is a terrible opponent for the Spider God, and she has a talent for intrigue, and even if she is killed by Stephen once, she can find an opportunity to use him to increase her power.
Dark Regions.
This cold, damp underground world is inhabited by a large number of monsters, and the most numerous races in the underground are drow elves, gray dwarves, and gnomes. However, the god system of the gray dwarves is relatively weak, so the dark regions have almost always been dominated by drow elves, their cities are heavily guarded and hierarchical, women have absolute status, and the priesthood of the spider god queen - Rose is supreme, and any man who dares to look at them is a sin, and will be punished with a rather cruel whipping. In the society of drow elves, men do not have the initiative to pursue women, and it is women who choose their satisfactory spouses.
Even in the rites of passage of some of the best drow males, they have to go through a special ritual to dedicate themselves to the priesthood of the spider god.
In this kind of matriarchal society with strict hierarchies, the male drow elves are consumed as cannon fodder in family battles again and again, as long as the direct female drow elves are still alive, even the down-and-out drow family can have a comeback one day. However, if all the direct females of a drow family are dead, then the family is completely destroyed, and the male drow elves will be absorbed and swallowed up by other families as trophies.
It turns out that women are even more ruthless than men.
No sooner had Stephen arrived in the city than he witnessed a murder in which an assassin hiding in the shadows suddenly stabbed a venomous blade and attacked a female warrior, dragging her body down an alley. A murder that is not discovered in the society of the Drow Elves is not a murder, and the Spider God Queen has been using the infighting of the Drow Elf race to draw strength and soul for herself. All of the Drow families have a ranking, and in order to compete for this rank, they kill each other almost every year, and the Grand Masters secretly clash with each other and use all kinds of intrigues in order to weaken their rivals.
Many people think that the Drow are a lewd, depraved race.
In fact, this is not wrong, but in the society of drow elves, it is the female who has the active mating right, and the male only has the passive mating right in most cases, which means that even if it is prostitution, it is the female drow elf who prostitutes, not the male drow who prostitutes.
Some possessive female drow elves will even assassinate their mates for mating with other females!
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